Shadows (2) (Hex) - Softcover

Lassiter, Rhiannon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743422120 ISBN 13: 9780743422123

Publisher: Simon Pulse, 2002

Synopsis

A Supercomputer Brain In A 15-Year-Old's Body...
Meet Raven, The Most Dangerous Teenager In The World....
Tomorrow has come. And now, in 24th-century London, the CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex-human mutants with supercomputer minds. Raven is next on their list. Soon she will be in their hands....
Raven and her brother Wraith have rescued their sister Revenge. Now the CPS and the tyrannical, repressive European Federation have declared all-out war. But as Raven battles her captors, who will lead the Hex? It is up to Wraith to forge a union between the Hex and the rebel group Anglecynn. But can newcomer Ali lead the fragile alliance into a battle beyond her wildest dreams and rescue Raven before it is too late?

About this title

About the Author

Rhiannon Lassiter is an author of science fiction, fantasy, contemporary, magical realism, psychological horror, and thrill novels for teenagers. Her favorite authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Mahy, and Octavia E. Butler. Her own novels explore themes of identity, change, and becoming. Rhiannon lives and works in Oxford, United Kingdom. Her ambition is to be the first writer-in-residence on the Moon. Find out more at rhiannonlassiter.com

Reviews

Grades 5-8--This is the second installment in a trilogy about a band of mutant teenagers in 24th-century London. Though the premise sounds like a B movie, this fast-paced novel is more engaging than one might expect, and should appeal to fans of the genre. "Hexes" are outcasts who possess a particular gene that gives them extraordinary mental and technological powers that even they don't fully understand. The European Federation views the race as terrorists, and has vowed to destroy them, so Hexes have rarely lived beyond childhood. Only a small band of renegades, led by the powerful and mysterious Raven, has managed to evade government capture. Here, Raven and her clan join forces with a powerful antigovernment group to battle the CPS, a secret government agency leading the extermination effort. Raven is temporarily captured, but the ending makes it clear that she emerges stronger than ever. Lassiter shows considerable skill in drawing readers into her world of tomorrow, while still creating characters that will be recognizable to today's kids. Raven is about as strong a female protagonist as there is, but within the Hex clique, there are the same insecurities, jealousies, and peer pressures that kids experience in their own lives. Though second in a series, this installment reads fairly independently. The only drawback is that the book contains a handful of careless grammatical and typographical errors, but none so serious that they will detract from readers' enjoyment.
Ronni Krasnow, New York Public Library
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Reviewed with Rhiannon Lassiter's Ghosts.

Gr. 7-10. These two paperbacks continue and complete the Hex trilogy, with the same nonstop action that distinguished Hex [BKL Ja 1 & 15 02]. In Shadows, teen hacker extraordinaire Raven is captured by the secret government agency bent on destroying the Hex-human mutants. She's put into the clutches of the very scientist whose secret laboratory she had destroyed and who wants to plumb the depths of her supercomputer mind. Meanwhile, her fellow Hexes are forging a partnership with an antigovernment rebel group and making plans to rescue her. In Ghosts, the new amalgamation of Hexes and rebels comes out of hiding to wreak havoc on the world's computer system and discovers the system itself harbors an evil, threatening blackness. This trilogy is tautly plotted and exciting to the max, and the conclusion will satisfy readers. Sally Estes
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743422120
• ISBN 13: 9780743422123
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272